The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 31 Oct 1906 1

LAW NOTICES.
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Wednesday, October 31.

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SYDNEY QUARTER SESSIONS.

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    The following is a list of cases for trial at Sydney Quarter Sessions, commencing on Thursday:—William Emanuel Hutchinson Neich, charged with false pretences (five charges); Denis Ryan, a serious offence; John Doherty, shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm; Elizabeth Broadby, maliciously wounding; William Stone, George Horne, and Charles D’Asarta, stealing in a dwelling; Herbert Gray, maliciously setting fire to a shop; Albert May, inflicting grievous bodily harm; Claud Illingworth and Albert Kidd, housebreaking and stealing; Percy Constable Pickering, maliciously wounding; James Andrew Elvy, abduction; Rupert Lionel Camp, housebreaking and stealing; Claud Illingworth, stealing; Mary Edwards, larceny in a dwelling; Sarah Jane Dansey, maliciously injuring property; John Maguire, assault with intent to rob; Edmund Kennelly, uttering counterfeit coin; Robert McKeown, embezzlement; Joseph Morgan Smith, false pretences; Augusta Hoare, larceny; William Williams, larceny; Peter Jorgensen, receiving (two charges); Kathleen Dwyer and Daisy Greville, larceny and false pretences; Joseph Miller, receiving; George Murray, breaking and entering with intent; Frank Kelso, Sydney Dunn, and Thomas Austin, maliciously wounding; Henry Foster, larceny; Reuben Doodewood, nuisance; Maurice Chambers Ward and George William Thorn, escape; Edward Tremayne Dunstan, breach of the Marriage Act; Jose Antonio Fernandez Kaliere, uttering counterfeit coin; Herbert Lehman, breaking and entering and stealing; Donald Osborne, false pretences; James Ahern, indecent assault; Mary O’Connor, false pretences; Ernest Stewart, William Ernest Follan, and Ernest Oscar Archibald, larceny; Ernest Stewart, larceny; William Jones, breaking and entering with intent; Ernest Myatt and Robert James Burns, assault and robbery; Edward Ernest Sheihy, maliciously setting fore to a dwelling; Frank Gould, by misconduct causing bodily harm; August Martin, forgery and uttering; Percival James King, abduction; Edward Glover, receiving; Lillian Shipton, perjury; Edward Price, stealing; George William Thorn, false pretences (two charges) and forgery; Henry Barker and Joseph William Roberts, breaking and entering and stealing; Winifred Lennon and Maud Ada Bailey, stealing from the person; Allan Moore, Alexander Mulveny, and Frederick James Wright, larceny and breaking and entering and stealing; Frederick James Wright, larceny (two charges); William Moylan, stealing from the person; David Moon, stealing; John Brogmus, larceny; Boland Smith and Joseph William Roberts, breaking and entering and stealing; Henry Barker and Joseph William Roberts, breaking and entering and stealing.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 1 Nov 1906 2

LAW NOTICES.
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Thursday, November 1.

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QUARTER SESSIONS.

    James Ahearn, assault; Augusta Hoare, larceny; Ernest Myatt and Robert James Burns, assault and robbery; Denis Ryan, assault. Only the witnesses in these cases need attend to-day.

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The Daily Telegraph, Fri 2 Nov 1906 3

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.
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A SERIOUS ASSAULT.

    Denis Ryan, a middle-aged man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting a boy named Edgar Connors, at Sydney, on September 22. The jury found him guilty without leaving the box, and he was remanded for sentence.

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Evening News, Fri 2 Nov 1906 4

DARLINGHURST SESSIONS.
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    Denis Ryan was found guilty of a shocking offence at Sydney on September 22. He was remanded for sentence.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 2 Nov 1906 5

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris, Crown Prosecutor.
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ASSAULT.

    Denis Ryan, a man aged about 50, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, on September 22 last, at Sydney, assaulted a boy. The case was of a particularly unpleasant character. The jury, without leaving the box, convicted the accused, and he was remanded for sentence.

    The Court adjourned to the following day.

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The Daily Telegraph, Sat 3 Nov 1906 6

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.
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SENTENCED.

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    Denis Ryan, convicted of a serious assault on a boy, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude.

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Evening News, Sat 3 Nov 1906 7

BREVITIES.
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    Lawyers are trying, on behalf of some Christian Scientists, to discover what has become of £3,000,000 received by Mrs Eddy, and reported to be missing.
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    At Melbourne Court of General Sessions, Marion Edwards, who has been masquerading as a man, has been acquitted on a charge of burglary. She appeared in court in male attire.
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    Denis Ryan, found guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions of a serious offence, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 3 Nov 1906 8

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris, Crown Prosecutor.
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SENTENCES.

    Denis Ryan, a man aged about 50, who had been convicted of a serious offence, was sentenced to penal servitude for three years.

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Denis Ryan, Gaol photo sheet 9

SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6071], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1905-1907, No.10191, p. 280, R5111.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 10191
06-4171

Date when Portrait was taken: 2-11-1906

Name: Denis Ryan

Native place: Queensland

Year of birth: unknown 1856

Arrived       Ship:
in Colony }   Year: BC

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Laborer

Religion: C of E

Education, degree of: R & W

Height: 5' 3¼"

Weight     On committal: 155
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Grey

Colour of eyes: Blue

Marks or special features: Minus nine teeth top jaw and two teeth lower jaw. One vaccine mark outside left upper arm. Round scar behind point of right shoulder. Scar inside right ring finger, inside wrist, and ball of thumb. Hair thin on top of head. Nose covered in scars. Navel protrudes, has been raptured

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

Redfern PC 

Sydney Q.S

12

  1

  6

11

1894

1906

Drunk

Indecent assault on a male person

10/- or 2 days Impt

3 years PS

 

1     The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 31 Oct 1906, p. 7. Emphasis added.

2     The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 1 Nov 1906, p. 5. Emphasis added.

3     The Daily Telegraph, Fri 2 Nov 1906, p. 8.

4     Evening News, (Sydney, NSW), Fri 2 Nov 1906, p. 4.

5     The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 2 Nov 1906, p. 4.

6     The Daily Telegraph, Sat 3 Nov 1906, p. 22.

7     Evening News, (Sydney, NSW), Fri 2 Nov 1906, p. 4. Emphasis added.

8     The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 3 Nov 1906, p. 10.

9     SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6071], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1905-1907, No.10191, p. 280, R5111.

 

Indecent Assault